Nightcaps: The weight of cookbooks will soon change the course of the sun

It’s been a week or two since the last example of San Francisco bureaucratic ridiculousness, so here you go. Delightful Valencia business Mission Cheese wants to stay open past 8pm, at least on weekends. First of all, they had to wait a year before even applying. They were told it shouldn’t be a problem, then were told that because one person complained, they were denied. [Mission Local]

Willie Brown on Yountville: “Nothing is over two stories high. Everything is quaint. There are no signs at all – you need to know where you’re going to find a place.” [San Francisco Chronicle]

From the national scene:

The always-entertaining Fergus Henderson on whether the world has too many cookbooks: “It’s drowning in them. Soon it will be off-kilter – the weight of cookbooks will change the course of the sun.” [The Age via Eater National]

Michael Ruhlman on food writing: “Bottom line: don’t write if you can help it, and don’t write expecting to make money. The only really good reason to write is because you have to.” [Ruhlman]